BLACK WIDOW - A Marvelous Disaster 

She survived so much in this movie that it’s surprising that the fall on endgame actually killed her

I still can't get my head around the fact that they used Taskmaster - a character who copies moves perfectly - in a movie where all the bad guys already fight identically to Black Widow.

The first fifteen minutes and the opening credits were genuinely the best parts of this movie. It should have been all about Natashas time as a Black Widow, the Budapest mission, her meeting Clint and her eventual defection to shield. It should have been much darker and should have felt like a legit spy thriller. It also should have been made 5 years ago. Unfortunately none of those things happened

I really wish that they just made it an actual origin story about natasha’s time in the red room

The worst part about this movie is actually their accents. As a native Russian speaker it hurts my soul

Black Widow feels like a sequel to a movie we should have gotten 2 or 3 years ago. Most of the movie is Natasha reminiscing on events from her past we've never seen and trying to get her family back together who we never saw together ever.

I really feel like whoever wrote this film didn't realise that she isn't a super human super hero, they have her acting as if she's Spiderman or something, capable of falling from incredible heights and surviving anything with a minor scratch.

Atomic Blonde is the closest thing we could have gotten to a true Black Window film.

The thing about this movie is that it acts more of a movie that only exists because 1. People kept asking for a BW solo film 2. Just to introduce new characters

They turned task master into a suit, need a say more.

I liked the first 10 minutes when they were actually doing spy stuff. The movie should have been a tense spy thriller nstead of a ridiculous action film. They could have made it about Natasha breaking into the Raft to free the Avengers or uncovering a government plan to create the Dark Avengers with super villains.

5:55 I first saw that move in Far Cry 3 back in 2012 when Jason kills Vaas. That has always been the best rendition of it for me

The decision to make a Black Widow movie only after she's already dead is a completely baffling awful decision. This had potential to be a Bourne like movie in the MCU but the MCUisms hold it back every time. The humor constantly undercuts any dramatic weight.

My biggest problem with this movie is that it should have given us a reason WHY Nat decides to sacrifice herself more than she and Hawkeye were besties

The only good thing about this movie for me was the fact that it was filmed like five minutes away from my house and I went inside the actual set when they had finished using it.

But wait...wasn't it explained that Taskmaster was lethal killing machine because she had a magical chip implanted in her spine/head or whatever? How would a plot-serum somehow fix that? How would a plot-serum somehow 'fix' a problem in the girls that was entirely psychological..i.e., not able to be simply handwaved away?

I laughed really hard at this but apparently people were asking why she didn't ask any other avenger for help and the director did respond to this and said "it's because she's a strong woman that doesn't need a man to save her". I legit laughed because the movie is about family and the Avengers were like a family that she was disheartened after Civil War but na she doesn't need family because they're all men like WTF?

For those who don't know, this taskmaster is a bastardized version. The real taskmaster is a guy with a photographic memory that allows him to mimic anyone's movements ever since he was a kid. He became a agent of shield, & during a raid of a German base he took a German super soldier serum witch made him stronger overall, but at the cost of losing his memory everytime he learns something new. He became a mercenary because he forgot he was a agent of shield or that he had a wife who constantly tried to help him.

They had the most realistic villain (human trafficker) and couldn’t create a more compelling story. They could have done SO much more with misogyny and the very real issue of human trafficking but didn’t even TRY to do that!

I laughed out loud at the post credits scene. Did spooky Red Skull snitch on Hawkeye? How the fuck would anyone outside of the few involved in the time heist even know he was there when she died? It's so stupid I kinda love it.

I completely agree with everything you said This movie should’ve been way darker it’s child soldiers wtf you can’t make me feel bad about literal killers without a deep dive into their minds and why they do what they do

Half the injuries Black Widow takes in this would have killed freaking Thor.

This could’ve been a thoroughly heartfelt sendoff for Nat and Scarlett Johansson’s run as the character Logan style but nope, it was yet another messy glorified setup for future movies and shows instead

Strong disagree about the "not convincing Russian accent" actually. This, and not the Hollywood's "bad guy Ivan", is how Russians actually speak English (I know, I am Russian haha). Florence Pugh absolutely nailed it!

Funny you should mention falling asleep. I actually DID fall asleep watching Black Widow.

Funny thing is, it was David Harbour's idea to sing the song to try to reconnect with his "daughter" after the family reunited. That wasn't a scripted moment. One of the best scenes in the movie, and it was total improv by a great actor.

When Valentina said "wanna get revenge on the person who killed your sister?" I honestly expected a 3rd plot to bully Thanos

okay, Finn naming himself Stormtrooper is literally the same with Black Widow and actually is fuvking funnier than every joke in that movie. love it

My biggest issue with this movie is that it's Black Widow's first stand-alone movie and she doesn't feel like the protagonist of her own movie. Literally everyone talks about Florence Pugh's character and Natasha is just a side character.

Another thing worth noting: when the ex-widow sprays Yelena with the antidote and her teammates are contacting her, she never once thinks "Hey, I got sprayed with a cure for mind control. What if I go meet up with my teammates and spray them too? Then we can work together and figure this out". Instead, she just runs for it by herself...

Taskmaster is my fav anti hero but made him a boring "brainwashed" robot and not go into how cool his lore ACTUALLY is

A nice cast and so much wrong in this movie. But the family interactions from the house scene really got me, I think they did them amazing!

Fun fact: The younger Natasha is played by Ever Anderson, daughter of Milla Jovovich and Paul W.S. Anderson. She also played young Alice in Resident Evil: The Final Chapter!!

I am forever going to be angry that black widow didn't get her own origin story before captain marvel and when she finally got a movie it was just to introduce a new widow. I hate how marvel treated black widow.

Im surprised they didn't go the super soldier serum like the comics. It would actually explain why she keeps up so well with super humans beyond just being well trained. I was really hoping for it.

Studio: "Why won't the people go into female-lead-cinema?" Studio making nonsensical dumb movie. Studio: "We found out female actors can not play the main part in a blockbuster movie..." Audience: "WTF?!"

The worst parts of the movie (IMO): 1. They disrespected almost every aspect of EVERY character's history, present and comic canon without really needing to 2. The Russian accents, my god 3. The Black Widow program (from being spies to just obvious killers in uniforms on the streets, the history being erased apparently, the 'villain' in control, the reason he wants to have the control, etc) 4. No BuckyNat or even a mention of what was literally pivotal in her development in the comics 5. Alexi and Melina are knock-offs of their comic counterparts, but in the worst ways 6. Dreykov and Taskmaster are just laughable. Especially the chemical/pheramone bs and how they butchered Taskmaster... 7. It's about a decade too late but sureeee, wE LoVEd iT...

The ridiculous level of invulnerability could have made some sense if they had simply revealed that Black Widows were given some version of the super soldier serum (having synthesized it from the Winter Soldier's blood or something, I don't know). The writers didn't even bother to make that simple retcon. They just didn't care.

I think you misunderstood the ending? From what I gathered, they weren't giving Yelena a "new assignment" they were basically setting her up to want revenge so she would go after Hawkeye? I could be wrong though

I agree with everything you said other than Taskmaster. This movie ruined one of the most badass villains ever.

As far as I'm concerned, Black Widow is the best GI Joe movie I've ever seen.

I think what bugs me about this films the most (this coming from someone who enjoyed it) is that it feels like it was created by someone who hated the character of Black Widow. The constant moments of Natasha getting hurt, thrown around, etc. all feel malicious and no way show respect in the character or her story. Such a waste.

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This might be controversial, but as a pretty big black widow fan, I think this is one of the worst marvel movies. Such a disappointing send off for Natasha. She deserved better.

I wish I've gotten my money back for this movie. This movie should have been a grounded and epic spy movie, but fails on so many levels. The Black Widows are never explored. Natasha's family come off as a bunch of jerks who've abandoned each other. Everyone makes dumb choices. There's no stakes. And after seeing the reveal of Task Master, I realized that the people who made this have no passion or care when making this film. Marvel needs to work on developing their villains too. We are truly in the middle of phase bore.

Anyone else have "the video is unavailable on this device." ?? Never seen this before XD

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Fun Fact: The reason they used "butterfly" in the hangman is because the black widow story is a loose representation of MK Ultra experiments that went on back in the day where they really were trying to make slave assassins. The slave minded assassins were known as monarchs.

The sad thing about this movie is it could have just been about Florence Pugh taking up the mantle of Black Widow and it would have been better since Scarlet doesn’t really do anything except look bored. The ironic thing is that this movie when it was written, it was during the early stages of Marvel’s movies - and so many people pointed out how it doesn’t fit with the current Marvel films at the time; in perspective, it would be like in making the midquel to the Dark Knight Trilogy, you have Batman Forever - not a terrible movie, but noticeably out of place.

The thing that bothered me the most about this film was actually how it made Black Widow's sacrifice in End Game much less meaningful. She didn't want Hawk Eye to die because despite the fact they meant so much to each other, he had a family and she did not. Her whole story has always been around this... The avengers were always her only family, and that's why she made the decision she did for the infinity stone. She has many voice lines supporting this thought process in all the previous films. It's clear the family subplot in this film was badly shoehorned in with little thought for continuity. The existence of this movie just makes her death in seem shallow, or that despite everything that happened she still didn't consider Yelena or her fake parents real family after all lol

"We can't kill any innocents in this movie, except for all the people in the prison" I don't think those people are innocent if they're in prison

This film is problematic in many ways, for me it was that Yelena was funnier and more interesting than Natasha herself. Scarlett is a very good actress, but Florence is equally good, if not better. And it is not a good sign if the main character gets played to the wall.

Ok so I had the idea that instead of Draykov’s daughter being taskmaster, they should’ve left him basically how he is in the comics and made Draykov actually Draykov’s daughter in one of those crazy face-changing masks, cause her face was all messed up from the explosion, and a body suit pretending to be Draykov, so she could continue to run the red room as him both in spite of and for revenge for her father’s murderer. So the whole movie we think Draykov is still alive and running the red room out for revenge for his daughter’s murder and then we find out the twist that it’s his daughter running everything now looking for revenge for her father and for her own life that was ruined by Natasha, and like at the end Natasha would have this moral dilemma of “do I kill Draykov’s daughter now that she’s trying to kill me or do I try to find a way to help her to redemption because I caused all of this in the first place” kind of thing

The drop the knife into the other hand trick was first used in the knife fight in the movie “The Hunted” between Benicio del Toro and Tommy Lee Jones.

the way she flew out after getting kicked had me wheezing 9:30

Black Widow is supposed to be her call sign. Metaphorically, it's supposed to conjure the image of the super spy femme fatale. Calling her Red Room comrades Black Widows would be like if they rebooted Top Gun & said the main character started out in a secret organization called The Mavericks. They just completely misinterpreted the character. Not surprised the director had never read the comics. She said really intelligent things like, "I needed a reason for Taskmaster to be working for a criminal organization like the Red Room." Meanwhile, Taskmaster in the comics has worked for every organization & it would be weird if he hadn't been involved with a shady company. & Task from the comics had quips. Why would the MCU & Kevin Deadpool a character like that? Bad management of the property by a director that's not even a fan of the source material. Why did they let someone who doesn't believe in the genre make a movie about it? What was wrong with the conflict they set up? Black Widow got out, but she never stopped looking for her family is a great set up. There's your story. Taskmaster trained her, which would be a nice homage to the comics, where he's trained everybody. They have a complicated, mysterious backstory that let's the audience imagine all kinds of things. I mean, it practically writes itself & you can use a lot of the same set pieces. Just make Black Widow the inventor with Stark tech of the magic red juice that de-radicalizes the Red Room assets, who all have their own cool call signs that would let the designers show off some creativity & sell more toys. I mean, how do you drop the monetary ball like this. You can showcase her spy abilities & super gadgets while going undercover to find her sister & set it during the period between Iron Man 3 & Age of Ultron. There are lots of holes to fill in there, with Tony's suits & the budding romance with Banner that would allow for monologues about her past or if you wanted to do any crazy flashbacks or talk about PTSD, a reoccurring theme in the MCU. I don't know how they messed this up, except maybe they thought she was supposed to be invincible like Captain America & not a super spy. It's so weird.

The worst thing was Taskmaster. They did what they do to Deadpool in Xmen origins to him.

I don't think you understand, Black Widow is a "strong independent woman" and such beings entirely are immune to; Death, Failure, Consequences, Character Flaws, etc She only died in Endgame because she got close to a Man and lost such epic and almighty powers

I have never fallen asleep watching an action/superhero film, even the doom movie from like 2005… I fell asleep during this film on my first viewing.

Dude I've suffered from insomnia for most of my life and this movie cured me. I can't believe I fell asleep in a loud movie theater. Thank you Black Widow. I don't need meds anymore... Just watch this shit

I enjoyed the total of 5 minutes of Taskmaster interactions in the Spider-Man game more than the entirety of his screen time in this movie

Tbf the “drop the knife to catch it and continue fighting” is pretty awesome in a good fight scene

I was wondering how Natasha survived some of these things. I remember years ago it was theorized she had the super soldier serum. But nope.

Sorry Elvis, but no they did Taskmaster dirty… they turned a dope a** interesting villain with traits like an highly talkative and arrogant personality into a blank slate of a character that has no dialogue, no personality, and nothing else just to put in a twist that fans really dreaded to see. I liked parts of this film but Taskmaster being translated so poorly from the comics to the screen makes me rate this film 3.4/10

This movie should've been released after civil war. Also thought it was a good movie but taskmaster was disappointing

I've been in a rollover accident. Even w/o physical injuries, it is several mins (at least) before your body can even move itself. At all. Naught to do w strength or skill.

"They did taskmaster pretty well in this movie." Wtf? That is one of the worst parts of the movie as a whole.

Taskmastrer is probably one of my favorite characters and didn’t mind that it was Antonia Dreykov. I do wish that it would hint at Taskmaster having a grudge with Natasha. Could’ve been like smashing the screen of Natasha’s face on a tablet, etc. The reveal is kind of underwhelming and the fact that she was cool with Natasha at the very end was kind of disappointing. Don’t forget that Natasha was responsible for her fate.

My mom got it on DVD, and made it a family movie night. I enjoyed it, not a favorite, but still remember it and was nice to watch together. The highlight for me was the beginning and hearing American Pie, a favorite song from my childhood, singing along to it with my parents in the car. The only problem I think I have is that, the end scene after the credits, it hints that Yelena wants to kill Hawkeye, but watching the Hawkeye show, she doesn't... add much. I enjoyed her scenes, and the ending with her believing Clint and leaving him alive was still good, but after that ending credit scene it felt like build up with a mediocre resolution.

still very upset that taskmaster wasn't a He-Man character in a cape in this movie.

As a Norwegian, I can confirm that the avalanche thing is the most realistic "weird thing" that happens in the entire movie.

The thing about sending through the post office, you know the Hope Diamond was mailed through the post office once? They figured no one would look there and then they don't have to deal with any attempted heists. So...

RU-vidr MauLer made a 4 hours long, breakdown of this movie, especially it's flaws. And yet, You still managed to touch on a few things, he didn't! That's commendable, and says a lot about this movie too XD

I can't overstate how long I laughed at "marvelous disaster" so simple but so amazing

TBH i disagree completely on Taskmaster, they did the character incredibly dirty in this movie. I think in the entire runtime Taskmaster only actively copies another characters moves once, and that's on the bridge. Otherwise she's just vaguely using captain america and hawkeye's skillset or being a massive bruiser. Which is hilarious when you learn that the person wearing the suit for a majority of the runtime was actually a stuntguy, and during the unmasking scenes they just edited the actress head onto his body. Makes you wonder why she got the acting credit in the credits sequence when it was the stuntguy on screen for like 95% of the runtime. They completely changed Taskmasters character, story and gender, but they did him okay cause she copies people occasionally? Nah. They did the character awfully. And they need to stop genderbending characters for little to no reason. How much of the story would have really changed if they said Taskmaster was a mercenary that the evil guy hired cause he knew Natasha was the best and just sending black widows after her wouldn't work. Or that he knew about the serum and was scared sending too many of them would cause them to also turn on him. And by the way, how does it make any sense whatsoever that she can fight the Red Guardian in such a dominant fashion? We're meant to believe the guy is a super soldier at least near the same tier as captain america, Taskmaster in this movie on the other hand is supposedly only mentally conditioned. There's no mention of her having been given a physical boost or any sort of super steroid to boost her capabilities, yet in the fight she's beating the shit out of him and throwing him around and he can't do a thing about it. It's not even that she's more skilled then him and is dodging everything he dishes out, she's just overpowering him. Then at the last second the equally unpowered fake mother backflips her into a cell with minimal effort. The whole series of events makes absolutely no sense. I'm not saying Red Guardian should have won he's a dumbfuck bruiser. I'm saying it should have been more of an even fight that Taskmaster should have won through skill, technique and abusing equipment.

I think the noise from the explosion would be sufficient to start an avalanche, but the fact that you are just able to dismiss this as ‘it’s probably possible’ highlights just how many flaws to the film there are that you don’t even need to dwell on it. Love the videos, keep up the good work

Hi! I'm from Budapest and I can confirm that we watch the news and would totally notice Black Widow (we noticed Scarlett Johansson making the movie here so that's a good point)

This movie was dumb but I enjoyed watching it. I do kinda feel like Disney is just pumping out a bunch of mediocre movies though

You thought they did Taskmaster pretty well in this movie? They retconned his (now a her) backstory just to make her a throwaway character in a single standalone “Black Widow” movie now making it a pretty much sure thing we will never see Taskmaster as a villain in the MCU again.

11:55 this is excellent! and then 12:07 maybe im over parsing but this is such a master piece

I love this channel. I get to watch movies with someone else who's as cynical as i am and i don't have to waste 90+mins.

This movie is the definition of " TIS BUT A SCRATCH"

All I wanted is a cool dark spy movie. Seeing her in the red room, her dark past, and how she got into shield. What I got was another marvel boom boom bang bang movie that was so boring and nonsensical that I nearly went out of the theater three times. I am telling you this movie is the cure for insomnia.

You gotta admit the "drop the knife and catch it with the other hand" thing was dope in Winter Soldier

Thank you Black Widow for giving us that PERFECT meme of a giant CG explosion with our green screened hero harmlessly flying away 😂

For a movie that came out 1 year late from its original release date, this movie felt 6 years too late.

This somewhat serious action movie has a lot of cartoon logic

Yo the falling debris and people diving after others to catch them is literally just the intro to Saints Row the Third

Got a new movie for you that I just saw on Prime; Santa Jaws. What a better way to kick off December.

Taskmaster was the biggest waste of a character. Put that lady in any other suit and call her any other name and the story would not have changed one bit. Give us our epic fighting master from the Bronx you cowards.

You remember that really impactful scene from Avengers 1, where Loki really dug into Natasha’s past, and made fun of the idea that she could ever make up for what she’s done? You know how that one scene basically made her a fan favorite instantly, and made people WANT her to have her own movie, all those years ago? This movie turns that scene into a joke, by having the fat funny commie man literally say what Loki said verbatim, but in a fatherly way. And then, this movie that’s supposed to be the send off to this fan-favorite character, has her defeat the bad guy by “tactically” bashing her f*cking skull against a table. And this is just the start of the list of character assassination and just stupid f*cking writing decisions in this movie, let alone phase 4 as a whole. The actual state of modern Hollywood. And people give this f*cking sh*t positive reviews, and even defend it.

LOL🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 The Nicholas Cage meme before and after the car crash was beyond hilarious.... Great input.

I watched this on a plane ride. Best 2 hour nap Ive ever had

The only redeeming quality of this movie for me was the introduction of Florence Pugh into the MCU. I badly wanted a solo Black Widow or a Black Widow/Hawkeye movie but this was not a movie for me. As action movies go it was very middle of the road, as an MCU flick it was bottom of the barrel. Definitely a one watch movie for me.

It’s amazing what a fucking waste this movie was. So many options for a Black Widow solo film and we got this mediocre side with a the stupidest interpretation of Taskmaster. Should’ve just been an actual goddamn espionage movie and/or based on that mission her and Hawkeye talked about but nah. We got this.

"Do not question the product. Consume the product" - Disney shareholders

The past where she jokes about the pose is my favorite part. I felt the sibling pressure on that one.

As soon a I finished the 2+ hour resident evil series review, right back at it with a 40 minute video! It’s a Christmas miracle!

05:14 - SHIELD has been disband at this point, hence the Sokovia Accords… so it’s actually Thunderbolt Ross, but yes, she isn’t going into hiding at all…

5:55 It's called " The Jason Brody " mate 😂😂